Dingle Food & Wine Festival

Friday 3rd October - Sunday 5th October 2008

The Dingle Food and Wine Festival will take place in Dingle on the first weekend in October. Last years event was a huge success and this year’s promises to be even bigger and better. The festival will include series of cookery demonstrations, special menus in restaurants, a food market, a cheese and wine exposition, wine seminars, and culinary trails.

Cookery demonstrations: A mobile kitchen will be set up in St. James Church and a variety of both local and national chefs demonstrated how to prepare various dishes.

Special Menus: Restaurants will create varied tasting menus on the Friday and Saturday nights of the festival, featuring local produce.

Food Market: A food and wine market will operate throughout the town.

Cheese and Wine: There will be tutored wine tastings and seminars.

Culinary Food Trails: Shops twinned with artisan producers will highlight both food and some of the interesting retail offerings in Dingle. Oyster tasting in a gallery, scallops and cider in a pub, and a wine tasting in a crystal shop were just a few of the pairings last year. This year, there will be many more exciting pairings!

Foraging Walk: How to forage wild foods and survive from the coast.

Charity: Last year, the festival raised close to €2,000 for Hope Guatemala.

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